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Despite the electoral drubbing, and the success of the far-right across Germany and other parts of Europe, Scholz insisted that there was ultimately still a significant majority in favor of classic democratic parties.
The conservative opposition Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) won 30% of the vote in Germany. At the EU level, Ursula von der Leyen’s conservative alliance, the European People’s Party (EPP), also came out as the largest bloc in the parliament.
Though French President Emmanuel Macron had responded to a bad result for his party in France by calling snap legislative elections for June, the German Greens insist that the ruling coalition in Berlin will endure.
“There is no need for a vote of confidence,” Green co-leader Omid Nouripour said. The Greens won only 11.9% of the vote — down from 20.5% in the 2019 European Parliament election.
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